[android-developers] Re: Oracle Android App Store

Btw, I saw that you (via AndAppStore) got an honorable mention in the
WIRED article re 'Independent App Stores' yesterday.
Congrats.

Steve

On Jun 13, 1:54 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 8:44 am, gosh <steve...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > >(our revenue is from ads in the client & customisation deals in case you're wondering).
>
> > Then I'm assuming you must require the app publisher to make some
> > small addition to their source code - which is no big deal to the
> > coder.
>
> Nope. The ads are only in our client, and the customisation deals are
> with OEMs and hardware distributors for customer versions of our
> systems. Developers don't have to modify anything.
>
> > > If you also add in that Market does things that third party after-
> > > market app stores can't (automatic updates, copy protection,
> > > permissions-before-download installs), you can see that any company
> > > getting into the Android app store space is competing on a uneven
> > > playing field from day 1 on devices where they aren't integrated into
> > > the firmware
>
> > If you already require a mod to the source as per above, you could
> > also add some phone-home 'occasionally' capability (your marketplace
> > home) ... which could implement a 'better' copy protection mechanism
> > than the Android Market currently has.
>
> AndAppStore already offers a purchase checking facility where
> developers can, if they want to, check against our database of
> purchases to see if the user has purchased a copy of the app for the
> specific device it's running on.
>
>
>
> > Similarly, you could also use such phone-home code to implement a
> > 'better' updates policy - e.g. I find the current update mechanism in
> > Android Market a pain in the butt in that it tries to update apps 'too
> > often'. E.g. you could let the 'phone user' pick a minimum update
> > frequency which overrides those frenetic/frivolous updaters.
>
> We're looking at adding a time selector in addition to our the on/off
> switch we currently have in the AndAppStore client for background
> update checking.
>
> Al.

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